Well, I consider myself pretty well-versed in the art of DISTRIBUTE jobs now, and I have to say that I really love the whole mechanism. It has vastly expanded what I've been able to do with LISTSERV. Long live mail-merge. Now, however, I have been testing a list using the *Mail-Merge= Yes header keyword. Every job I send gets rejected for security reasons: [log in to unmask] sent a DISTRIBUTE job that was rejected for the following reason: "Job did not pass security checks". Job 3538 ("MMTEST-L MAILDIST") transferred to [log in to unmask] I have searched the archives of this list and LSTOWN-L and I did find someone having similar problems. They were instructed that their lines were too long, and to use the comma-escape-continuation format. That must have worked for them because they didn't post anymore after that. I tried the same thing, and it didn't work. I knew it wouldn't, too, because I could send the exact same job directly to the LISTSERV@* address and it gets distributed just fine. Here is a sample of one of my test jobs: //Plain_Text JOB // DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE DBMS=LIST(mmtest-l) , [log in to unmask] PW=my_passwd //to DD " " //Data DD *,EOF To: &*TO; From: <[log in to unmask]> Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Test: &*DATE Date: &*DATE; Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello world :P I tried sending this directly to LISTSERV@, as I mentioned above, and to MMTEST-L@, which is the list I am testing. I get the error message when I send it to the list. Now here's another twist: I also get this response simultaneously: Your message dated Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:53:41 -0400 with no subject has been successfully distributed to the MMTEST-L list (3 recipients). ! However, the message is not actually distributed to the list subscribers, but it does show up in the archive. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? And for the record, I have changed my header several times, trying everything I could think of, including using the list creation password instead of my personal password, to no avail. Thanks all-- Jeff ************************************* Jeff Dorn GPO LISTSERV Site Administrator Computer Specialist, Network Services US GPO ESDD Network Systems Branch 202-512-2010 x32953 [log in to unmask]